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  • I know (am related to :/) a climate change sceptic, who seems to have concluded that if it is real, there is no point even trying to do anything about it now, and we are all stuffed. I am trying to argue against the idea that almost any/all energy usage, whatever the source, must contribute to global warming.

    As far as I can tell the argument is - if we turn wind power into heat for our homes, that will increase global warming (cos heat), same if we turn sun (light) into heat.

    I have never understood “humans using electricity” to be a large cause of global temperature increases, but rather, humans creating CO2 etc through the process of creating electricity to be the problem.

    I suppose the point is that renewable energy is also bad?

    A) am I wrong
    B) assuming I am not, I don’t even know what to search for to show it is [clearly absolutely bollocks and] wrong.

  • a climate change sceptic, who seems to have concluded that if it is real, there is no point even trying to do anything about it now, and we are all stuffed.

    This is generally referred to as a doomer rather than a sceptic, sceptics dispute man-made warming, doomers believe in the science but think we have either left it to late or the consequences are going to be so severe that it is past the point of being able to do anything, views range from it will be a extinction type event to societal collapse, so they can range from being preppers preparing for post collapse to resigned to the inevitable so do nothing

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